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creating huge deficits. republicans deny care about deficit at all -- do not care about deficits at all. what they do care about is cutting government. to quote grover norquist, it can b t in a bath tu [indiscernible] they call it something else but it would destroy both programs. their goal is to destroy government. corporations paid on average 40% of profits for taxes. arey large corporations 12ing about fall% -- about %. they ryan budget would lower that further. millionaires with a $200,000 tax cut -- would get a 200,000 todollar tax curt. t. host: a tweet -- is true.at if you looked at the budget, we have not had in the great increase in spending since obama took office except the that the food stamps and unemployment insurance. except in food stamps and unemployment insurance. programs we have enacted that are designed to increase during recessions like unemployment andrance and food stamps some money comes into the economy so the recession does not turn into a depression. the large deficits occur beca
creating huge deficits. republicans deny care about deficit at all -- do not care about deficits at all. what they do care about is cutting government. to quote grover norquist, it can b t in a bath tu [indiscernible] they call it something else but it would destroy both programs. their goal is to destroy government. corporations paid on average 40% of profits for taxes. arey large corporations 12ing about fall% -- about %. they ryan budget would lower that further. millionaires with a $200,000...
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on the jobs deficit to help deal with the budget deficit. now, we also reduce the deficit in a steady, sustained way. we do it with balance. we do it with targeted cuts, but we also do it, mr. chairman, by eliminating some of the tax breaks and tax expenditures for very high-income individuals. we heard from governor romney and we heard from the chairman of the budget committee last fall and this year that there are trillions of dollars of tax expenditures that disproportionately benefit very wealthy people. so the republican plan, they said we'll get rid of your tax expenditures for high-income people, but we'll bring down your top rate. so in the end the folks at the top get a very big windfall. we say let's eliminate some of those tax breaks for very wealthy people in order to help reduce our deficit, so when you combine that savings with targeted cuts, you can reduce it in a balanced way rather than increasing the tax burden on the middle class which is what their budget will do. we also want to make sure we keep our commitments to our s
on the jobs deficit to help deal with the budget deficit. now, we also reduce the deficit in a steady, sustained way. we do it with balance. we do it with targeted cuts, but we also do it, mr. chairman, by eliminating some of the tax breaks and tax expenditures for very high-income individuals. we heard from governor romney and we heard from the chairman of the budget committee last fall and this year that there are trillions of dollars of tax expenditures that disproportionately benefit very...
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it kills jobs, stifles growth and adds to the deficit. all while making life harder for seniors, women, children and the most vulnerable in our society. the math of the budget just does not add up. simple arithmetic tells you that the only way to pay for mr. ryan's proposed tax cuts for the fortunate few is to eliminate many of the deductions that middle class families count on to pay for housing and health care and to save for their retirement. the ryan tax plan would further burden those who are struggling by substantially lowering taxes for the most fortunate and that's not spend, that's just plain math -- spin, that's just plain math. the vision this budget offers of america is tuth totally at odds -- is totally at odds with who we claim to be. it's a vision of the country where the government is indifferent to the suffering of many while only paying attention to the demands of a few. then there is the other plan that is before us, the democratic plan. with a balanced set of priorities, a better vision for the future, found in the bud
it kills jobs, stifles growth and adds to the deficit. all while making life harder for seniors, women, children and the most vulnerable in our society. the math of the budget just does not add up. simple arithmetic tells you that the only way to pay for mr. ryan's proposed tax cuts for the fortunate few is to eliminate many of the deductions that middle class families count on to pay for housing and health care and to save for their retirement. the ryan tax plan would further burden those who...
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aboutrse when we think debt and deficits, there are two kinds of deficit. there are those that invest in human capital or infrastructure or investing in education, and those which do not, which endanger our future by adding to the national debt. and this war deficit was of the second type. third point that i am passionate about, although it is difficult for many people to be passionate about accounting, but i am passionate about the lack of war accounting. one of the purposes of our book and the several book chapters that we have written since then is to argue that bad accounting matters. the u.s. owes nearly a trillion dollars in what business would call deferred compensation to the men and women who fought the war, but this liability does not appear anywhere on the national balance sheet. we did not account for the value iraqe 6658 lives lost in and afghanistan. that is just the troops, not civilians, not contractors, except for small amount of life insurance money. even though civilian government agencies estimate the value of life at $7.20 million, so o
aboutrse when we think debt and deficits, there are two kinds of deficit. there are those that invest in human capital or infrastructure or investing in education, and those which do not, which endanger our future by adding to the national debt. and this war deficit was of the second type. third point that i am passionate about, although it is difficult for many people to be passionate about accounting, but i am passionate about the lack of war accounting. one of the purposes of our book and...